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Platters are not made of iron (or even steel) and neither is the surface, so I’m not sure why rust comes into the picture.
by mc32 10mo ago
Platters are not made of iron (or even steel) and neither is the surface, so I’m not sure why rust comes into the picture.
- onraglanroad 10mo agoThe platters used to be coated with iron oxide as the magnetic coating. Modern ones use more exotic materials.
- mc32 10mo agoYes but that was like 40 years ago. I think by now the phraseology should reflect reality after about forty years.
- jacquesm 10mo agoHow many horsepower does your car have?
- theandrewbailey 10mo agoWe still talk about "bugs" (99+% of computer defects in the past 70+ years have not been caused by insects) and "AJAX" (long after most of these requests use JSON instead of XML).
- seanhandley 10mo ago“Phraseology” is subtly different. You mean “vocabulary”, “terminology”, possibly “nomenclature”.
- arcanemachiner 10mo agoIronically, I only started hearing the term being used in the past decade, as a colloquial alternative to solid-state storage.